Not just for dinner, we spend much of our time picking them and eating them straight from the pod. This is the very reason that we decided that we needed more than just a trellis in the vegetable patch to grow them on. Tiny tears ensued one day when our then little toddler went out to the garden and couldn’t find one more pea to pick! It’s a tough little life!
When we first began our vegetable garden over ten years ago, one of the first vegetables that we chose were peas, the variety was called “Greenfeast” and we enjoyed peas all summer long in our first two garden beds.
Using fences as mini garden beds...
When the boundary fences went up, we had decided to use farm fencing that had chicken wire between the posts. Well from that moment on, I didn’t see fences anymore, I saw trellises! I got my husband to put an extra piece of wood at the bottom so I could fill it in with a little compost, making a mini-bed, that i could plant peas into all year round.
It’s been so successful that we add more every year and haven’t run out of fencing yet! Peas are shallow rooted, so they are easy to pull out, fill the bottom back up with more well rotted compost and replant with peas. The spent pea plants become mulch or go into the compost to recycle the valuable nutrients, and so the cycle of growing good food continues.
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